NEWS FLASH: As an American you're more likely to be shot, or in a car accident, or any number of horrible things than be killed or maimed in a terrorist attack on US soil.
Who wants to live under constant surveillance in a police state? It may just be the least bad option.
And to and insult to injury, it appears several more candidates have voiced support for the drone program. Rand's lack of a hard condemnation is disappointing but not surprising.
This is a 'have to criticize both sides' false equivalence. I might take this argument seriously IF you can show behavior from pro-net neutrality groups that 1) comes anywhere close to bad-faith behavior and 2) is as widespread/systemic as it is in the anti-net neutrality side.
"This appeal is not about net neutrality but the FCC’s unnecessary action to apply outdated utility style regulation to the most innovative network in our history,” said Michael Powell, NCTA President & CEO.
PROTIP: maybe it's not a good idea to call a law 'outdated' when it was passed in the far-off year of 1996.
This includes cases where the agents image the entire contents of the device in order to perform a search later. In fact, in most cases where this is done, the person is cut out of the informational loop.
Know what? Next time I have to cross the border, I'm making sure I power cycle my encrypted devices...
All the driver asked was what he was being pulled over for. And Cherry refused to answer, choosing instead to berate the driver for not being a purebred American, among other things.
Wait, you're telling me the officer is an advocate for Native American rights? Totally puts the incident in a new ligh- oh...
What makes you think that it is "Net Neutrality" concept that is the problem that they have, and not the government agency itself?
The root cause of the problem is that the FCC has been captured by corporate interests who act against the wishes of the public - like the pro-telco FCC commissioners that are holding up the release of the new rules. And keep in mind that Antonin Scalia - who is probably the closest in terms of political views to these cartoonists - says Title II is the most constitutionally sound way to obtain Net Neutrality!
May as well give that over to the NSA,... Oh, basically they did.
You're conflating two separate issues. Do you realize the pro-NN crowd - including EFF and ACLU - is and has been vehemently trying to push back against the NSA?
File this somewhere and see if later down the road I am not correct. I will be.
I suspect you'd say the same thing about phone companies if we were having this discussion in 1934.
Better solution: let's do away with private prisons completely. No matter which way you slice it, making imprisonment a profitable enterprise means that said companies will lobby congress for harsher sentencing criminalization of acts that should otherwise not be criminal. A typical private prison has a contract with the state where they need to keep a minimum headcount, and if the state falls short of supplying them w/prisoners the state has to pay them a HUGE sum of money.
The private prison would then be under no constraint to keep the offender in prison for any fixed length of time
Major problem here - what happens if they start blackmailing people over the fact they are going to release "violent" criminals - and the only remedy is to pay them off? Or decide they will simply imprison the prisoner for life, budget be damned?
Even if you do think this scandal is overblown, remember that both corruption and the appearance of corruption are corrosive in their effects. That and if a pleb like you or I did this sort of thing as part of employment we'd be screwed.
During memorial services for the slain cops, attending officers turned their backs on Mayor De Blasio for his daring to suggest his mixed-race son might have more to fear from the city's stop-and-friskers than whites.
Color me surprised that an officer with the last name of 'Lynch' is hostile to the needs and desires of the black community.
I think it's really telling that the party that has been in opposition to the President - fighting him tooth and nail and even forcing a shutdown - are now lining up alongside him to pass trade deals like these. That should definitely set off your inner 'PANIC' sense.
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You're conflating two separate issues. Do you realize the pro-NN crowd - including EFF and ACLU - is and has been vehemently trying to push back against the NSA?
I suspect you'd say the same thing about phone companies if we were having this discussion in 1934.
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Major problem here - what happens if they start blackmailing people over the fact they are going to release "violent" criminals - and the only remedy is to pay them off? Or decide they will simply imprison the prisoner for life, budget be damned?
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